Have a BAD Day to Have an Amazing Week

By Ian, July 18, 2010

Monday I had a really bad day with just everything going wrong. Google banned my 4th account, server was up and down, redirects wasn’t redirecting, pages didn’t load fully, internet was intermittent, and earnings just sucked. I woke up to this mess and so it ruined my day, even working out at the gym didn’t help at all.

I was at the office just trying to fix things and calling people, trying to find outsourcers to help. I was keeping to myself because I wanted to concentrate on what I need to do and keep focus. After around 6pm Monday, I left the office and I was tired. Tuesday, I felt recovered but I started my day grinding heavily to get back to where I need to be.

So I started to adjust some campaigns, add more targets, do more research, just doing more. Tuesday was tiring but I crossed my fingers hoping Wednesday would be a day where my work paid off – it did.

I woke up to money and it was an amazing feeling. Changes I did worked out to my benefit and I felt like all the grinding I did in just 2 days paid off. Money is the Motivation and it drives me to reach certain goals.

It takes a reality to get what you want. For example before I started in the online marketing space, I was forced outside my parents house to live on my own because I did not want to finish school. I was on my own working 3 heavy jobs. I wanted to get out of that and enjoy life, so I researched on what I needed to do to live better.

This situation provided a goal in my head and a goal I reached. The main reason a lot of people fail online, I personally think is not a lot of doing and not experiencing reality. Reality puts a perception to you and lets you know how life really is. When I had a horrible Monday, I strived to fix the errors and make back what was lost. Reality was – I have been slacking lately and it showed me that I was. The next day I worked stupid hard – where Thursday was a more focus and relax day and Friday was a Beach day for me.

Sometimes you have to see reality to push yourself harder. By me having a bad day with my own business, I gained a more understanding of what I needed to do and profited. I worked real hard for 2-3 days and enjoyed a night with my boys and a day at the beach with my girls.

The moral of the story it pays off to work hard!

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I think everybody goes through a day like this, for me it happens in my personal life. Glad to hear you to it all sorted in the end.
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Wow great post. I hate when days go like that….

It’s great you picked up dusted yourself off worked hard to get it
together and then Poof PAYOFF!!!!

That’s sweet justice.

Good for you, keep up the good work.

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lol, awesome photo. That’s gotta hurt.

Good job recovering from a bad day Ian. A day like that sure can be a wakeup call. Suddenly you can see that you may not be putting in enough effort or you efforts may be going to the wrong areas. It’s just part of the ups and downs of affiliate marketing.
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Thanks for sharing this Ian. We do experience some bad days in our lives, especially in our business. But we have no choice but to accept it and look for some ways to overcome it, or else we will be stuck and will go down as well.

I agree that reality makes us to take action. If we don’t experience those kind of things, we would’ve not taken action and be a bit more relax. It’s really a nice feeling after a week of hard work, we’ll take some time off to relax during the weekends and reward ourselves with the achievement that we had during the past week.

Kind regards,

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I like the personalized post. online marketing isnt easy, but your right if you work hard it does pay off. thanks for the post.
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Really good read, people (including myself) need a reality check from time to time. Thanks for the insight and inspiration.
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wow wotta picture, that must have blow his eye out of his socket i bet. yes somedays u got to have a bad day i guess to make up for a good week, its happened to me this week ian, monday was disasterous, my ferrari broke down, had to get it repaired costing me £3000.
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The only good thing about the bad day is that you can learn plenty of things about yourself that need to be improved.
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Great post, this is very true you should never give up and work hard. Even if you are down continue to work hard and you eventually be up again. Its hard to do but if you want to succeed you have to work hard.
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seems likes im in the same boat u been…got rent to pay..campaigns to fund..the official word that im out of school this week..oh and i got fired from the job yesterday. Got roi’s to make all or nothin!
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Very Nice pictures
The only good thing about the bad day is that you can learn plenty of things about yourself that need to be improved.
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OUCH!!!

That picture serves to illustrate your point most eloquently. From rockbottom it can only go up, after all!

Everything works in cycles, and sometimes you just have to be cognisant of that and roll with the punches and wait for the peaks to take your breath away. It is easier than it sounds though
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Dudeeeeeeeeeee that is a serious blast to the face by a soccer ball on that guy… wow… can’t believe also the photographer that managed to take that photo!

Till then,

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First off, amazing photo. Secondly, I’m glad you got things back on track again. I’ve experienced that feeling of getting sidetracked all too many times as I tend to get complacent often. As a result, I’ve tried to be on the ball a lot more.
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me too had a very bad yesterday, All my browser were crushing down due to some conflict with Shockwave flash player, and guess what after wasting whole day i fixed it by re-installing Operating system Whoa !!!
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Uhh ball fight the man I like this pic.
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We all go through this from time to time you have your good days and your bad days hopefully we all can have a lot more good days than bad ones. At least that is what we all strive for.
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I can’t stand bad days by any means, but waking up to money earned while sleeping is one of the greatest feelings in the world and definitely can change my attitude quick! I don’t care how much or how little it is, by generating cash like that 24/7, it shows that your business is working for you, not the other way around.
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Sometimes is takes a setback or a rough day to get you re-focused on your ultimate goals. The most important thing that you did was to regroup and dust yourself off and get back to work the next day and look at achieving your goals.